The Texts

The texts listed below represent only a very small sample of early modern engagements with national identity, historiography, and sovereignty. However, these seventeenth-century national histories have a particularly high concentration of the phenomena that Making Room in History is designed to examine and so they are useful in testing and refining the project’s encoding. In the future, I will extend the both genres and the temporal scope of encoded texts; increasing the representation of texts authored by women will be a high priority.

TEI P5 transcriptions of these texts were made available through the public release of Phase I of the EEBO-TCP partnership; links below are to the Oxford Text Archive web editions. Making Room in History is profoundly indebted to EEBO-TCP for their generosity in sharing the Phase I transcriptions and making projects like this one possible.